Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Planning a Warehouse Network and Design: Key Factors to Consider. In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. Your distribution strategy too, will have a bearing on network optimisation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

This holds true across all five key components of a medical manufacturing business: Design, Manufacture, Distribution, Maintenance, and Service. To contend with these pressures, medical device manufacturers crave actionable, real-time, accurate, and reliable data throughout the entire supply chain.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2019

It is a well-known fact that supply chain is increasingly becoming digital. But is simply adding a digital component to the complex supply chain network enough to make it efficient? According to IBM, integrating supply chain with customer insight is essential for the success of the omnichannel.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Customs and Export Procedures Logistics companies need to exercise caution in navigating the varied customs procedures of different countries. Companies must be attentive to cultural nuances in product design, packaging, and overall strategy to avoid economic challenges arising from difficulties in breaking cultural taboos and rules.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The answer varies from function to function in the supply chain. For Management: a balancing strategy, etc…. Inventory Management is about having a right balance of expectations from different functions of the supply chain. Example A: Fashion Retailer – Business Strategy is short life cycle products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As I was enjoying the holidays, I had an opportunity to reflect on the year past and what the future holds for supply chains. However, organizations will need to be deliberate in designing supply chains with optionality so it does not become cost prohibitive. Supply Chain Design is essential in tackling these.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

At Georgia Southern, we dispel this by illustrating the dynamic nature and variety of daily activities a supply chain manager encounters. All of our logistics and supply chain management programs incorporate online education to some extent. They must know which data deserves priority for a given problem.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. The Supply Chain Head. We use the term Head of Supply Chain simply because it’s a role that falls under a range of professional titles.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. View all Infosys blogs. Features & Opinions. |.

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 26, 2017

3 – ‘Logistics and the strangling of strategy’ by David Beaumont. This post was one of a smaller number of posts which looked at logistics and its relationship to strategy. USMC MV-22 Osprey during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2017 – Photo by Department of Defence.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 2, 2023

If you don’t have anything unique to talk about, then perhaps you should reconsider your product strategy. Selling on Amazon may or may not be part of that strategy, but be sure you understand the differences between Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) , Fulfilled by Merchant (FBM) , and Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP) before committing to any of them.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

This article was first published in the July / August 2018 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions. Reverse logistics, while not being the opposite of forward logistics, is still about products moving backwards in the supply chain. A plan is necessary, possibly based on one of the following strategies.

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Logistics in War

MAY 11, 2019

Sustaining fifth-generation capabilities in a future conflict will challenge every tenet of the logistics and sustainment enterprise designed to support them – from tooth to tail. Global supply chains were free to transport goods to agreed points within host nations. And no one was shooting at us! The future may be different.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2015

this exercise helps retain mobility in the damaged joints". A strong acceptable use policy for employees can also contribute to a successful enterprise mobility strategy. Enterprise Mobility In Manufacturing Improving Logistics and Supply Chain. But, what does mobility exactly mean? mōˈbilədē/. noun: mobility.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But a strategy requires much more than slide decks and statements of intent, right? You say: “We’re looking for teams capable of handling complex supply chain challenges, who can grapple with and master uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change.” I found your real-world exercises in past years very enlightening.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 15, 2019

From enhanced design and manufacturing processes to novel staff training and apprenticeship programmes, the use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in industrial applications is growing. Simon Woodward, head of accelerated innovation and digitalisation, DHL Supply Chain UK and Ireland.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Some of the world’s biggest retailers and their partners are once again feeling the sting of “ the bullwhip effect ” – a term of art amongst supply chain professionals that describes how changes in demand at the retail level can reverberate and amplify issues throughout the supply chain. All aboard.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 14, 2023

Original article: PODCAST: Modern Courier Delivery Compliance Considerations: Understanding SOX and SOC Compliance Logistics and supply chain are some of the world’s most complex and regulated industries, which has been further compounded by increasing reliance on data and technology in both fields.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Supply chains are complex entities. While customer satisfaction is a hugely important criterion by which supply chain success is judged, so is supply chain profitability. While customer satisfaction is a hugely important criterion by which supply chain success is judged, so is supply chain profitability.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

However, WFP, African Governments and other public and private sector stakeholders are the catalyst this agency to be exercised, hopefully helping to lay the foundation for communities where the youth of today can live and thrive as productive adults. African youth has the potential and agency to succeed.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2018

TMS Strategy & Building the Business Case. It begins with a strategy project that documents the current state process, information, and data flows. It includes a TMS-agnostic, but functional capability aware, future state process design, which typically leads to organizational changes and task re-alignment.

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Blog on Log

AUGUST 19, 2006

These are hot topics in the Supply chain and Logistics world today. The strategic planning addresses such issues as network design in terms of plant, warehouse, partner facility locations and capacity planning based on the customer demand, supplier positions, transportation and other fulfillment costs.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

To optimize their delivery operations, these companies engage in strategic route design on an infrequent basis or when some big event occurs in the company. For example, companies are changing their delivery strategies based upon peak and slow seasons, or even the weather to best serve customers and keep their costs in line.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 6, 2018

Getting this right to maximize your transportation strategy is a balancing act—regardless of the mode or modes of shipping. Thus, the choice of scale is a strategic exercise because it involves a forecast of what market conditions are expected to be over the short run interim. This is known as diseconomies of scale. Inside and outside.

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Logistics in War

JANUARY 23, 2019

An unprepared military offers political leaders few options, corrupts strategy, is inefficient and ineffective, and poses a national risk. 4] Routine exercises and training can achieve high standards of preparedness, at least for a time. . – Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1].

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Editor's Note: This guest contribution the Cerasis blog comes from our friends over at Fronetics an inbound and content marketing company who specializes in marketing for companies with a keen value adding business model for those in the supply chain and logistics industries. Supply Chain Planning Starts with Looking Back.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

He said port customers and stakeholders were looking for better visibility of their cargo – when it was going to arrive and where it was at any point in the supply chain – and meeting those needs was another way of highlighting the importance of the ports. For Kurt Nagle, that meant getting digital.

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